A south westerly is blowing loose curtains

of rain across the bay like drifts of mist.

The horizon has been long gone, and with it

the silhouettes of fossil fuel platforms

in the Irish Sea off the North Wales coast.

By late afternoon the weather has changed

with the tides. Sun lights the disused works

on the far headland, and the vicissitudes

of Amlwch’s fortunes – copper mines then shipyards.

Large, low clouds pass slowly, elegantly –

like fluffy, misshapen dirigibles.

At dusk, on the easterly horizon,

the platforms’ orange lights gleam. As night falls

the sky clears of cloud, and there is only

blackness, and the untold stars in their pristine,

unlettered disarray.